From women to gender

1. From women to gender Structure in ACV-CSC

2. ACV-CSC as a whole • Branches: Building, Teachers, Transport.. • Regions: Flemish and French speaking • Confederation: national level • Each branch and region has their own autonomy. Financially they are connected. Conference every 4 years with framework for confederation.

3. Important aspects – conference 2002 • From women’s structure to gender • Gender action plan • Gender mainstreaming • Equality body

4. Fromwomen’sstructureto gender – the olddays • Each branch and each region a person partly responsable for women. (with women groups) • Idea: include more women and women issues in the trade union. • Confederation level: 2 coordinators (French&Flemish) + budget

5. From women’s structure to gender - problem • Groupsexcisted out of olderpeople, notmuchyoungpeople. The womengroupswere nog veryactiveanymore. • Womengroupswereseperategroupswhocouldgivetheiropinions on certain topics. • Society developedinto the idea of ‘gender’, also non-macho men face problems, men shouldalsofightforequality issues m/f

6. From women’s structure to gender – new system • Conference 2002: approval of gender-concept (more on Flemish side than French) • Gendermainstreaming • Gender groups (men also included) on regional and branch level • Gender-topics: for example: parental leave for men!

7. From women’s structure to gender – new system • Equality body: • Goal: more equality m/f in our own trade union • Anual report with numbers of each branch and region • Quota 33% • Equality officers in every region/branch • Equality in our national comité (50/50)